[net.lan] BNET - what is it?

david@dcl-cs.UUCP (David Coffield) (07/10/85)

Can someone please let me know what BNET is? Its quoted as "the UNIX standard
networking software package" by several companies. Is it? Where did it come
from? Any such info gratefully received.
	Thanks,
		David.
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ian@utcs.UUCP (Ian F. Darwin) (07/18/85)

The original asked what BNET is. Bnet is UniSoft's implementation
of TCP/IP, the `standard' UNIX networking stuff, for their
System V 68000 (and maybe other) ports. Many of the UniSoft
OEMs currently offering it have the version derived from 4.1BSD;
I'm not sure what state the `current' offering that OEMs get
from UniSoft is in (i.e., is it 4.2 yet? I don't know).